French workers remain one of the best organised groups in Europe. This is why Macron has launched attacks on the rail workers (see http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2018/04/14/french-public-sector-workers-under-attack/) and the postal workers. The organised French working class offers the best alternative to the neo-liberalism of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche and the rampant national chauvinist, racist Right populism of Marine Le Pen’s Fronte National. The post workers have been on strike since March. We are publishing this appeal.

FRENCH POSTAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND

French Postal Workers are locked in a fight to the death against the Macron government, defending wages, conditions and the right to organise as trade unionists. We urge trade unionists to support the fight by contributing to the information strike fund at the link below.

Postal workers of a Paris, France suburban area have been on unlimited strike since March 26, 2018.

The strike initially sparked in protest of the firing of Gaël Quirante (secretary of the postal union SUD Poste 92). Labor Ministry Muriel Pénicaud, who authorized his firing, is now being called in by the court to testify as former CEO of Business France, a company suspected to have been unduly favored in the awarding of a public contract ! Today, the 150 strikers are fighting for Gaël’s rehiring but also against worsening working conditions and job destruction and for the hiring of temp and otherwise casualized workers.

La Poste management stops at nothing to try and break the strike : bailiffs, physical assaults by supervisors, summons by the police… And no spreading over time of the wage deductions, meaning 0€ paychecks !

The next paycheck is coming in the next few days, we need as many contributions as soon as possible.

Let’s help them win !

TO SUPPORT LA POSTE STRIKERS :

CONTRIBUTE TO THE ONLINE INTERNATIONAL STRIKE FUND :

-A transparent strike fund, in which the trade union Sud Poste 92 will receive and manage the funds

– A democratic strike fund governed by commonly agreed upon rules, which will be decided directly by the strikers.

The aim is to help all the post office workers participating in this unlimited strike, whether or not they be union members